The Bill Evans Album

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The Bill Evans Album
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Studio album by Bill Evans
Released End of August/early September 1971[1]
Recorded May 11-12, 17, 19-20 and June 9, 1971
CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 70:27
Label Columbia
C 30855
Producer Helen Keane
Bill Evans chronology
Montreux II
(1970)Montreux II1970
The Bill Evans Album
(1971)
Living Time
(1972)Living Time1972
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars link
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide 4/5 stars[2]

The Bill Evans Album is an album by the jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1971.

At the Grammy Awards of 1972, The Bill Evans Album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo and the Best Jazz Performance by a Group awards.

The Bill Evans Memorial Library states it is the first recording in which Evans used a Fender Rhodes piano.[3]

The Bill Evans Album was reissued with three bonus alternative tracks by Sony in 2005.

Track listing

All songs by Bill Evans unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Comrade Conrad" – 7:48
  2. "Two Lonely People" (Bill Evans, Carol Hall) – 6:13
  3. "Funkallero" – 7:05
  4. "Sugar Plum" – 7:45
  5. "Waltz for Debby" (Evans, Lees) – 6:40
  6. "Re: Person I Knew" – 5:55
  7. "T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune)" – 7:39
    2005 reissue bonus tracks:
  8. "Waltz for Debby" [alternate take] (Evans, Gene Lees) – 7:52
  9. "Re: Person I Knew" [alternate take] – 7:21
  10. "Funkallero" [alternate take] – 6:09

Credits

Production notes

  • Helen Keane – producer
  • Peter Weiss – engineer, mixing
  • Orrin Keepnews – reissue producer
  • Mark Wilder – remastering
  • John Berg – art direction
  • Fred Binkley – liner notes
  • Don Hunstein – photography
  • Seth Rothstein – project director
  • Paula Wood – art direction, design

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1971 Billboard Jazz Albums 14

References

  1. Billboard Aug 21, 1971
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  3. The Bill Evans Memorial Library